From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 30 14:29:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA05241 for current-outgoing; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 14:29:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus.xtalwind.net (slipper14b.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.78]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA05231 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 14:29:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.xtalwind.net (8.8.2/8.8.2) with SMTP id RAA04711; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:29:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:29:14 -0500 (EST) From: jack X-Sender: jack@localhost To: "Marc G. Fournier" cc: Ollivier Robert , current@freebsd.org, Mark Crispin Subject: Re: /var/mail (was: re: Help, permission problems...) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Can anyone verify what the other *BSD variants do? BSDi? > NetBSD? OpenBSD? > > Mark argued that FreeBSD is technically "unsupported" ... but > that BSDi/NetBSD were ... if that's the case, then are they setting > their /var/mail to 1777? Or do their admins go through the same > procedures as I just did to get IMAP4 to quiet down? ls -l on two of our BSDi boxes shows drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail {size} mail -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@onyx.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------